Lifeboat House is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1995. House.
Lifeboat House
- WRENN ID
- dusk-groin-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1995
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lifeboat House, Barry Docks, Barry
- OS grid reference
- ST 121 667
- Coordinates
- 51.39275, -3.26368
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Lifeboat House is a Grade II listed building constructed from pressed red brick, featuring gable coping, kneelers, and pinnacles, with a corrugated roof covering. The west end facing the sea has large sliding boat doors, with a camber-headed window positioned above. On the north side, there is a roughly central camber-headed doorway, one camber-headed window to the left, two to the right, and a small window at eaves level on the right. The south side is similar but has only two windows. The rear of the building includes a lower gabled extension with a camber-headed window. Additionally, there is a slipway made of steel girders, supported by groups of four iron columns with horizontal and diagonal cross ties.
Local climate
Lifeboat House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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